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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that "Israel chose targets based on its national interests to attack Iran and was not based on American directives."
Netanyahu has thus rejected hints that Israel originally planned to strike Iran's oil and natural gas facilities, but changed its mind and focused on Iranian military facilities after pressure from the United States of America.
He denied the allusions, calling them rumors and false news.
We recall that the United States has pressured Israel to think carefully about the retaliatory attack against Iran. Iran's October 1 ballistic missile attack on Israel (in response to a series of escalating actions by both sides) was expected to provoke a strong response from Israel.
The challenge for Biden was to persuade Israel to be cautious in its response, knowing that any overreach could trigger an all-out regional war that could draw America into the conflict - just weeks before the US election. A scenario that would have serious consequences.
Biden knew that Israel's prime minister, Netanyahu, might try to use this situation to launch a major attack on Iran, an opportunity he had long sought. Although such a move might seem tactically attractive, especially after Israel's recent success against Hezbollah in Lebanon, the US administration felt that it would be strategically too risky because it could trigger a wider conflict.
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